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The main reason for query model's prominence in complexity theory and quantum computing is the presence of concrete lower bounding techniques: polynomial and adversary method. There have been considerable efforts to give lower bounds using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Rajat Mittal , Sanjay S Nair , Sunayana Patro

Consider the task of locating an unknown target point using approximate distance queries: in each round, a reconstructor selects a query point and receives a noisy version of its distance to the target. This problem arises naturally in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shay Moran , Elizaveta Nesterova

We provide a differentially private algorithm for hypothesis selection. Given samples from an unknown probability distribution $P$ and a set of $m$ probability distributions $\mathcal{H}$, the goal is to output, in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mark Bun , Gautam Kamath , Thomas Steinke , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Quantum statistical queries provide a theoretical framework for investigating the computational power of a learner with limited quantum resources. This model is particularly relevant in the current context, where available quantum devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Armando Angrisani , Elham Kashefi

We prove new upper and lower bounds on the sample complexity of $(\epsilon, \delta)$ differentially private algorithms for releasing approximate answers to threshold functions. A threshold function $c_x$ over a totally ordered domain $X$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Mark Bun , Kobbi Nissim , Uri Stemmer , Salil Vadhan

Operator learning has emerged as a new paradigm for the data-driven approximation of nonlinear operators. Despite its empirical success, the theoretical underpinnings governing the conditions for efficient operator learning remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Nikola B. Kovachki , Samuel Lanthaler , Hrushikesh Mhaskar

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

We study adaptive querying for learning user-dependent quantities of interest, such as responses to held-out items and psychometric indicators, within tight question budgets. Classical Bayesian design and computerized adaptive testing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-04 Kaizheng Wang , Yuhang Wu , Assaf Zeevi

We consider the problem of answering queries about a sensitive dataset subject to differential privacy. The queries may be chosen adversarially from a larger set Q of allowable queries in one of three ways, which we list in order from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

The goal of the ordered search problem is to find a particular item in an ordered list of n items. Using the adversary method, Hoyer, Neerbek, and Shi proved a quantum lower bound for this problem of (1/pi) ln n + Theta(1). Here, we find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-10 Andrew M. Childs , Troy Lee

With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence and machine learning, a wide spectrum of attacks against deep learning models have been proposed in the literature. Both the evasion attacks and the poisoning attacks attempt to utilize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Zeyan Liu , Fengjun Li , Jingqiang Lin , Zhu Li , Bo Luo

We are often interested in identifying the feasible subset of a decision space under multiple constraints to permit effective design exploration. If determining feasibility required computationally expensive simulations, the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Alma Rahat , Michael Wood

We study the statistical complexity of private linear regression under an unknown, potentially ill-conditioned covariate distribution. Somewhat surprisingly, under privacy constraints the intrinsic complexity is \emph{not} captured by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Fan Chen , Jiachun Li , Alexander Rakhlin , David Simchi-Levi

We investigate the direct-sum problem in the context of differentially private PAC learning: What is the sample complexity of solving $k$ learning tasks simultaneously under differential privacy, and how does this cost compare to that of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Mark Bun , Kobbi Nissim , Uri Stemmer

In the search with wildcards problem [Ambainis, Montanaro, Quantum Inf.~Comput.'14], one's goal is to learn an unknown bit-string $x \in \{-1,1\}^n$. An algorithm may, at unit cost, test equality of any subset of the hidden string with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Arjan Cornelissen , Nikhil S. Mande , Subhasree Patro , Nithish Raja , Swagato Sanyal

We study the pricing query complexity of revenue maximization for a single buyer whose private valuation is drawn from an unknown distribution. In this setting, the seller must learn the optimal monopoly price by posting prices and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Wei Tang , Yifan Wang , Mengxiao Zhang

The human intrinsic desire to pursue knowledge, also known as curiosity, is considered essential in the process of skill acquisition. With the aid of artificial curiosity, we could equip current techniques for control, such as Reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Pietro Mazzaglia , Ozan Catal , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt

Bayesian inference is an important technique throughout statistics. The essence of Beyesian inference is to derive the posterior belief updated from prior belief by the learned information, which is a set of differentially private answers…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Yonghui Xiao , Li Xiong

We focus on the problem of adversarial attacks against models on discrete sequential data in the black-box setting where the attacker aims to craft adversarial examples with limited query access to the victim model. Existing black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Deokjae Lee , Seungyong Moon , Junhyeok Lee , Hyun Oh Song

We give new characterizations of the sample complexity of answering linear queries (statistical queries) in the local and central models of differential privacy: *In the non-interactive local model, we give the first approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alexander Edmonds , Aleksandar Nikolov , Jonathan Ullman